Code for America believes government can work for the people, by the people in the 21st century.

We build open source technology and organize a network of people dedicated to making government services simple, effective, and easy to use. We focus our iterative, user-centered, and data-driven approach to government primarily in four areas that have real human impact: Health, Economic Development, Safety and Justice & Citizen-Government Interaction. Code for America helps show what’s possible and changed tools, platforms, skills, and practices of government in hundreds of cities.

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Catherine Bracy Director of Community Organizing

Catherine Bracy (Director of Community Organizing) Until November 2012, she was a product manager and director of the Obama campaign’s technology field office in San Francisco, the first of its kind in American political history. In that role she was responsible for organizing technologists to volunteer their skills to the campaign’s technology and digital efforts. Prior to joining the campaign, she ran the Knight Foundation’s 2011 News Challenge and before that was the administrative director at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society. She is on the board of directors at the Citizen Engagement Lab and the Public Laboratory.